March 2012 in the Northern Hemisphere

[annew]

Very pretty, Razvan!

[Maggi Young]

Went botanising today and found some nice plants among which diferent colour variants of Scilla bifolia

Both good colours.

[Paul T]

I love that white one.  Good amount of flowers on the head as well.

[WimB]

Some plants which caught my eye in the garden yesterday and today:

Thalictrum thalictroides 'Pink Flash'
Iberis saxatilis 'Pygmaea'
Ranunculus alpestris
Saxifraga scardica f. olymp and Saxifraga marginata
Soldanella carpatica 'Alba'
Adonis ramosa
Hyacinthoides italica
Lewisia pygmaea
Morisia monanthos
and Thalictrum thalictroides 'Amelia'

[David Nicholson]

Lovely selection Wim.

[fleurbleue]

Thalictrum Pink Flash is so nice, Wim... 

[WimB]

Lovely selection Wim.

Thanks David!

Thalictrum Pink Flash is so nice, Wim... 

Nicole, I think so too...the pink is much intenser and darker than on the picture!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

In flower at the moment :

Planted one year ago in a tufa hole :
1) Draba mollisima
2) Draba x "John Saxton"

In the rock garden :
3) a young Draba yunnanensis
4) Muscari "Mount Hood"
5) Pulsatilla bought as P. "Budapest" - but as this does not seem to exist anymore - Pulsatilla vulgaris seems more appropriate - still nice I think ! 

[hadacekf]

Self sown seedlings of bulbs often appear in my meadow.

Chinodoxa-lucilae
Corydalis-malkensis
Corydalis-solida
Puschkinia-scilloides
Hyacinthus-orientalis
Anemone blanda

[Webster008]

Excellent plants Wim,

Really love your Thalictrums, which I thought were anemonellas. Adonis is also a stunner.

Looking at your pictures I get the impression that your rock garden must look magnificent. I would really love to see some overall pictures.

[Paul T]

Franz,

Your meadow must be amazing!!

Beautiful pics, Wim and Luc.  Thanks so much for you all sharing them.

[astragalus]

Luc, whatever the name, your pulsatilla is really lovely.

[Peppa]

It smells really good!

Ypsilandra tibetica

[WimB]

Excellent plants Wim,

Really love your Thalictrums, which I thought were anemonellas. Adonis is also a stunner.

Looking at your pictures I get the impression that your rock garden must look magnificent. I would really love to see some overall pictures.

Thanks, Rick.

Those Thalcitrums were once Anemonella...they've been renamed a couple of years ago (after genetic research) to be Thalictrum.

Those shade plants don't grow in a rock garden but under trees in some different corners of my garden. I'll take some overall pictures this week.

[Paul T]

Peppa et al,

Other than here on these forums I have never heard of or seen Ypsilandra tibetica.  I have no idea whether I could grow it here, or indeed whether it is even in Australia, but I would grow it just for the genus name.  There is something about the name Ypsilandra that is so inherently exotic, almost something you'd expect an alien to be called. 

They're beautiful little plants too, by the look of it.